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title: [16] With the flash and the roar of his gun he astonished the fearle… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: [16] With the flash and the roar of his gun he astonished the fearless Dakotas; They called it the "Máza Wakán" --the mighty, mysterious metal. "' Who acts: esteem, Dakotas, gun. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 4, with its dependency
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 4, sentence 5

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\[16\] With the flash and the roar of his gun he astonished the fearless Dakotas; They called it the "Máza Wakán" --the mighty, mysterious metal. "'

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**Who acts:** esteem, Dakotas, gun · **What happens:** astonish, call, roar · **To what, where:** fearless Dakotas, gun, 16 · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (esteem, Dakotas, gun), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg8122:11:5
# text = [16] With the flash and the roar of his gun he astonished the fearless Dakotas; They called it the "Máza Wakán" --the mighty, mysterious metal. "'
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	16	16	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	With	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	flash	flash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	roar	roar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	gun	gun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	astonished	astonish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	fearless	fearless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	Dakotas	dakota	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
19	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	Máza	Máza	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	xcomp	_	_
25	Wakán	Wakán	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
27	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
29	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
31	mysterious	mysterious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
34	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **astonish** | past | esteem | the fearless Dakotas |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus dakota=Experiencer |
| 2 | **call** | past | Dakotas *= dakota* | gun |  |  |  | the Máza *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient |
| 4 | **roar** |  | esteem's gun |  |  |  |  |  | nom roar «event intransitive»: of=agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, Project Gutenberg book 8122 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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